After the boys explained the men from the train proceeded cautiously to the danger point, guns ready. The anxious captain saw them coming and used his bugle to call the Scouts to him. There was a rush of train-wreckers from the woods. Shots were fired. Two of them fell in their tracks. The rest escaped.
Ted was congratulated. Captain Wilson turned to John Dean and said, with a pat on Ted’s shoulder:
HE WAVED THE RED SWEATER
“You know, hereafter we shall call him ‘Our Boy Scout, Lucky’. But, do you know, sir,” as Ted walked off embarrassed, “he uses his head. I am going to tell you one other case in point.” And he told John Dean of the spy.
The train came up, so did the frantic squad, with Sergeant Gilhooley at its head.
Mrs. Dean came out of the train, ran toward Ted and kissed him. Ted did not mind; he was very proud of that.
The train pulled into Wayland an hour late.
The newspapers called it an attempt of train-wreckers. One of the men who had been shot was dead and the other mortally wounded. He would not talk and was taken to the hospital.
Two days later he died.